Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) July 04, 2013
The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), lately chosen Matthew W. Bonner of Norfolk, Virginia, for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program (NBCC MFP). As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Mr. Bonner will acquire funding and education to help his education and facilitate his service to underserved minority populations.

The NBCC MFP is made achievable by a grant awarded to NBCC by the Substance Abuse and Mental Overall health Solutions Administration (SAMHSA) in August 2012. The Foundation is contracted by NBCC to administer the NBCC MFP, as well as education and collaboration activities that will be open to all National Certified Counselors. The goal of the system is to strengthen the infrastructure that engages diverse folks in counseling and increases the number of expert counselors supplying successful, culturally competent services to underserved populations.

The NBCC MFP has distributed $ 20,000 education awards to Mr. Bonner and the 23 other doctoral-level counseling students chosen to acquire the fellowship award. Matthew Bonner is a graduate of Rutgers University, Howard University and Loyola University, and is pursuing a doctoral degree in counselor education at Old Dominion University. Mr. Bonners operate encounter contains teaching undergraduate-level addiction theory classes and supplying counseling solutions for underserved populations and military families. As an NBCC MFP Fellow, he plans to operate with novice counselors to improve service delivery in the regions of psychological testing, ethics and addictions in addition to his counseling perform with minority populations.

The Foundation plans to open the subsequent NBCC MFP application period in December 2013. To discover far more about the NBCC MFP and its fellows, please check out http://www.nbccf.org/mfp.

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About the NBCC Foundation
The NBCC Foundation is an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), primarily based in Greensboro, North Carolina. NBCC is the nations premier expert certification board devoted to credentialing counselors who meet requirements for the common and specialty practices of professional counseling. Currently, there are more than 52,000 National Certified Counselors in the United States and more than 50 nations.





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